The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-08 00:00:00

___ , PahICE, , NARLBonotTGn.sT44 , S Ery ,7 Stephens ot r, ;. e • aCt.a .., No. 1.7.7, was brought up, on suspic -, n of having committed a robbery. W ' rhiam _Peters, a watchman of Sc;t; James pa . -: dte'posed, that about ball past two o'clock, this morning a hackney-coach turned the corner of Hus band and.Pet - er - -streets, got fast inn the , cirrner post ; t h e ';,,en c ,,s's 'was speaking to a lamplighter at the tinie the ioachinan (the prisotierl; never called to ahem to assist hint in extricating the coach ; they tried:with their whole force; ‘bit..were not able to ; whiWthey- were . using their exertions, a atchnian of St.. Anne's parish came up, and charged the ptisener with being tare - person who was leiter ingcs about Wardour-street with-his-coach. • Janies Wood, Watchman of,St. Anne's parish, de posed, that at half past one o'clock he perceived the coach; with two men on the box, step: at.Tyler's come, Wardous-s reel ; he was going his rounds, calling the hour ;.oti his return, the prisoner was pre parrn,_ to dri‘e oti, and .called out to his companion, " t, all in, is al; sate. ?" and being answered in the affirmative, drove off. At tt o o'clock he percei'red :he same coach corning up the street ; he secreted himself io patch them. They stopped at the same place. He went his rounds, calling two o'clock ; on his return, sbe prisoner was driving off; his com panion was gone. The witness followed the coach, Until it got taston the post,wheu he charged the pri seeer with being in• Wardour-street ; he denied ii, arid said he had lost his coach,at 101 past tenp'clock, and had only then found, it in Oxford-road. The witness desired the Prisoner to go to the !wild of the horses, and guide them, while the others lilted the carriage oE: ; when he got to the horses' head, he ran away. On examining the coach, they found eight reams of printing paper on the seats,; they got the carriage extricated, and drove to Se. James's watch- Louse; and lodged the paper -- ; they afterwards drove to the owner of, the carriage, in Chancery-lane, who said the Prisoner had been there about half an hour before, and said his car riage had been stolen off- the stand at ten o'clock,. whhe he was eating his supper, and that .he had been until that time looking h.r it, without success. 0. the witness and the other watchman returning to St. James's watch-house, they found the Pri son r ; he had called to inquire after the carrage ; and, from the description the witness gave of his person, the constable of the night detained him. The Prisoner, in hisdetence, told the old story of has ag lost the carriage, and that it could not hsve been a coachman who was driving, or he would not ha. e run foul of the post. The watchman was certain as to the rerson of the Prisoner. He was committed for further examina tion on this day se'nnight. A fellow; in the occupation- of a lamplighter in Mat y -te-none parish, named Glover, alias Iran b ull, was charged by a reapeelable young Scotehman, nam.d Alex. Campbell, with a earst wanton and tatordge us assault. Mr. Campbell stated, that he was passing quietly along Oxtot'd-street, about ten o'clock on Sunday night last ; when the Prisoner, with a ladder on his shoulder, had his blazing bUrner in his hand, which he wantonly drew across Mr. Campbell's breeches, and greased and scorched them Very much. The fellow, at a few paces forward, mounted his ladder to trins a lamp ; Mr. Campbell went up to. him to remonstrate on -the injury • and itisu,t he had recei‘ed, and asked hint his reason for friving acted as he had done. The prison , r answer ed in the most insulting language, d--d Mr. Camp bell's eyes, told him be would serve him in the same way again, and attually rammed the blazing buroir in his lace and eyes, and scorched and scalded him dreadfully. Mr. Campbell, deprived of his vision by this outrage, yet blind as he *was, scrambled to seize. the fellow, who, instantly with a blow ot his fist on the temple, knocked -Mr. C. down.. He gut up again; and, guided by the blows still dealt about his head and, face, at length grappled with the fellow, and knocked him down twice, and he was taken into custoey, and brought to the watch-house. - w o other respeCtable witnesses corroborated these • fads. Three persons, viz. - a liVery-stable-keeper, one of his ostlers, and alow tradesman in Oxford-street, of fered. to swear the very contrary, and to throw the -origin of the affray on Mr. Campbell, whose face was in so dreadful a way that he was not abld to attend sooner, and give hiS evidence. Mr. BRODIE, however, would give no credit to those witnesses; but told them to attend on the trial, and give their evidence before a Jury. Nei ther would he take any bail for the Prisoner, after so atrocious an outrage, but committed him for trial. GUILDHALL. —Yesterday John Lgary, who was chargeu with wounding a child in the head, was oval brought up, when the child attended. She stated, that, coming trout School on Wed nesday, about 12 o'clock, With two of her school fehows, they. passed near the Prisoner's Jadder, 'and one of them spat . .thrOngh it, when the prisoner threw his scissars at her,- and cut her in the head. Tue Prisoner solemnly protested the injury was purely accidental ; he was 'himself the father of five srmill children, -and was incapable of cruelty. The fact e as, his son, a boy of ten years old, was on the 13 i,ier, and he at the foot of it, trimming the burner otthe i.imp ; and the children, in passing by, spat' it, and fearing they might, in their play, throw it down, he made a motion with his baud, in w‘ ich the scissars were, bidding them go about , then business, when the scissars flew out of his hand, and injured the child. , He s as again remanded till Saturday, that the sur geon rulgt:t report whether any danger was to be ap preoended from the wound. /inn Southwell was it:arged with stealing . two 51. And'iie i 01. t:oleS from Jaines Hogg, in Bartholo . ine , h Fair, on Wednesday night. , The unfortunate man is a sailor, lately discharged fro the Culloden, at Plymouth. He %‘a u .able toto sat any particulars of his loss; but ti..o persons, whir) were present, said, they were last nigA in a a public-house in the tair, about ten o' clock, when. the Prost-tutor and t e Prisoner came in together ; he was drunk, and began d :nce to the music 0 .- a AM', fiAller. The crance ended in a reef,' in which his tidt tell oti, and there t , Ant)led Omit of n tin box and some papers. The woman picked them and affeeled to return them into the hat ; but the winesses saw het' open the tin box which ap peared to contain what they believed to be notes; she instantly closed it again, conveyed it into her packet. and went out. They guessing she intend ed to -rob the drunken sailor, followed and secured Tier; but, upon taking the box from her, it was emptied 'of its contents. The notes could not be founn. She was ordered to be brought up again on Satur day, in the hope the notes might be traced in the mean tune. A, Blood, who was rioting in the Fair, was detain ed for breaking the windows of a shop, and ordered to pay 15s. the amount of the damage. Three notorious pickpockets were taken up in the Fair ; on one of whore, of the name of Green, were found two duplicates of two , handkerchiefs, and a gold seal, pledged yesterday.. He was ordered to be detained till it could be seen if the owners were to be found. The others were discharged. EXTRAORDINARY IVARRATIVE. In the year 1526, James Lynch Fitzstephen, mer chant, being elected Mayor of Galway, sent his only son commander of one of bis ships to Bilboa, in Spain, for a. cargo of wine. Former dealings at this place were the means of recominending the fa ther's credit, which young Lynch took advantage of to secrete the maey for his Own. use, which his fa her entrust ed . him with for the purchase of the cargo. The Spaniard who supplied ..him on this occasion, sent his nephew with him to Ireland, to receive the debt, and establish a further.correspondeuce. The young men, Who -were much of an age, sailed toge ther with that seeming satislaaion which congenial situations create . among mankind. Open and gene rouS, the Spaniard .anticipated the pleasure which he should enjoy with such a friend. The ship proceed ed on her voyage, and as every day Must_ bring them nearer the place of destination, and . di s cover the fraud intended by Lynch, he conceived the diabolical resolution of throwing his friend overboard.. Alter sounding the sentiments of the hands on board, he brought the major part of them over to his purpose, by promise of reward, and the rest. fur fear. - Oa the night of the fifth day, the unfortunate Spaniard was violently seized in his bed, and thrown over . -board. A few days more _brought them to port ; his lather and friends received hint with joy, and in a short time bestowed on him a sufficient capital to set him) up in' business. Security had lulled every sortie of danger, and he proposed for a beautiful girl, the daughter of a neighbour, in marriage. Ills terms were accepted, and the day appointed, which was to crown, his ,yet -successful - villainy, when one of the sailors who had been with him on the voyage to Spain was taken ill, and finding himself at the point of death, he sent to. the father, and communicated a full relation of the horrid deed his son had committed on the seas. The father, though struck speechless with astonishment and grief, as length shook off all the feelings which incline the parent to natural par tiality. ." Justice shall take its course," said the in dignant magistrate ; and he; within a few minutes, had his son seized, together with the rest of the crew, and threw them into prison. They all con fessed the crOe ; a criminal process was made out mgainst .them, and in a few days a small town in the West of Ireland, beheld a sight paralleled by f e w in stances in history ; a father.sitting in_ judgment, like another Lucius Junius Brutus, on his son ! and like hint too, condemning hint to die as a - sacrifice to public justice ! " Were any other but your wretched father your judge (said the inflexible magistrate), I might drop a tear over my child's misfortunes, and solicit for his lite, though stained with murder.-..but you must die L.---These are the last drops which shall quench the sparks of nature—and if you dare hope, , implore that Heaven may not shut the gates of tner cy on the destroyer of his fellow-creature." He was led_ back to prison, and a short time ap pointed for his execution. Amazetneot sat on the face of every one of this little community, which at most did not consist of more • than thiee thousand people. The relations of the unhappy culprit sur rounded the father; they conjured him, by .all' the solicitude of nature - and compassion, to spare his son. His wretched mother, whose name was Blake; flew in distra&ion to the heads of her own family, and at length prevailed on them for the honour of their house, to rescue hear from the ignominy his death must bring on their name.---They armed to - deliver him•from prison ; when his father being informed of their intention, had him conveyed to his own house, which he surrounded with the officers of jus tice.—He then made the executioner fasten a rope to his neck: "You have little/ time to live, my son," said fie:--•" let the care of your soul employ the few moments=--take the last embraces of your unhappy father." •He ordered the rope to he well fastened to a windoW, and compelled the constables to throw the body out—a few minutes put an end to his life. Under the window, in Lombard-street, Galway, to this day, a skull and bones, carved in black Marble,- . is to be seen, which the father put up as a me mento. A very an6ent medal has been. found on the ruins of Old Catlisle, near Wigton. , It is of copper, of the size of a penny-piece, and .appears from the coinage to be that of the Roman Emperor Cotnmo dos, ho reigned in the year 191 ; consequently is about 1618 years old. On one side' is a bold Roman head, and on the reverse is a chariot and four horses : which precisely agrees with the print and description which Addison gives of it in his Dialogues on the use iuitiess of Ancient Medals. The. female and cornu .copice, and wreath representing the earth, are nearly defaced with rust; but the. chariot and horses, as also the head of Commodus, are in tolerable preser vation. • A PRIZE WORTHY OF A PRINCE.—The immense sum of Eighty Thousand Pounds may be gained in the present State Lottery, by purchasing the Four Tickets of One Number: Those who do pot look so high, may gain Sixty Thousand, by having Three Tickets of one Number ; For-Ay Thousand Pounds by T ,, 0 o 1 ihe same Number, dr Twenty Thousand Pounds .by.a Single 'Ticket.—These really Capital Trizvs . are all to be deteratined in One Day, 2(4 next mouth. ttj N : Printed b) RI IL% lk 1) tie, RR IS, of No. 4, Martiett.ccixt, Bo• -street; aro At the Su li-OFkiti:E, No. 112, Strand; where AdveriiseineAts, Orders SCOTCH AGRICULI'URAL FOR AUGUST. EAST I.OTHIAN. The weather through all August, has been hostile to rural work of every kind, and 'unfavourable , to the filling and ripening ,of the several corn crops. Owing to these adverse circumstances, very little liar, vest work is yet executed; whilst many fields, par ticularly those carrying oats, are completely lodged, and suffering severely from the uncommon moisture which, less or more, has prevailed since the corn mencemen't of the month. _ It is difficult to speak with precision respeCling the wheat crop, because, though numerous fields are evidently much injured, yet there is reason to presUme that the general crop has not suffered so widely and severely as it did in last season. Still wheat is below an average, and will return a crop of inferior bulk to what is commonly produced in 'this distriCt. Most of the pease and beans fields have taken a second growth, and of course must be com paratively improdueli%e,. Turnips, in a. few in stances, are good, and most of the late sown fields will not yield halt a crop, particularly those sown . with the imperfeet feed noticed in the June Report. The summer follows are generally in_ bad condition, and . upon many of them the dung remains to be ap plied. Potatoes, upon all the heavy soils, arc grear• ly injured by wetness, and on the whole will be much below an average. The grain Market continues to advance, and there is cause to presume that the crops of this year will not occasion any.depression. A . late harvest is always unfavourable to Scotland, preventing grain from be ing sufficiently ripened, and cousiu , . it to yield an interior quantity of meal or flour. In a word, the prospect afforded at present is but a gloomy one, and it steady dry went het' does not soon come round, serious consequences may be expected to f0110w...—. August 31', • Nip LOTAIAN. The unusual quantity of rain that has fallen this month has been onfavourable to the crops of every kind.lirV:e have had rain, more or less; every day. —The strong corns are laid, .especially on the best lands, and, from the present wet .state of the fields, it is difF.cult to give a corieti view of the crop.—A few fields are begun to be.cut down in the lover part of the county ; and „although the- 'weather stiould be favourable, the harvest will not be gene , ral for this fortnight to come. The wheats will be below an a%erage„ both as ,to quality and quantity ; but much,. will depend upon clear sun and dry. air dUring the harvest, Oats seem to be a frill Barleys are thin on the grotind; there is less of this grain sewn than formerly. The green crops have too.much stray.r. Turnips are a poor crop. The grain markets have been steady, except wheat, which has advanced 4s. to Os. per boll, owing to the old stock getting short, and au idea that the new will be soft and interior. The price of cattle of both kinds keeps high, and little expettation of a fall at present.—Aug. 31. . THE CAUSE OF FALKIRK. Notwithstanding the late heavy-rains, the crop in general in this quarter has not been so much laid as might have been expected, owing to its being ra , rather on the thin side. Th.:. beans, which promised well in the beginning of the year, have not main tained their pros p erous look, hut have becothe slen der in the stem, and not able to bring to maturity the quantity of blossom which at first they sliewed. The oats are vet very green, but if dry weather set in, so as to till and ripen them, they will be tolera bly productive. The wheat, upon the whole, ap pears to be later than last i year, and there is a little smut to be found in 'it, but not so much as will materially butt the sale. Blrley harvest has com menced in several places, which, in some instances, looks well, in others a middling crop. Corns, sold on the grounds, have brought high prices this sea son. The sale of hay has not yet been so brisk as for some years past, yet the prices are much the same as last year. The second crop, though looking tolerably fresh, will not be heavy. The late heavy and continued rains have hurt the fallow lands, giving new life and vigour to all the remaining root weeds, nevertheless it has been ploughed in tolera ble good condition.—August 30. PERTHSHIRE. The harvest commenced in this vicinity a few days ago, and is now become general. The grain seems to be ripening fast and notwithstanding the long continued rains which we have had, we have the prosped of what is known among farmers by the phrase a good middling crop.' The wheat in some places will -be injured, but not so much as was at one time suspected. This is probably owing, in a great measure, to its general thinness, and to the' coolness.of the atmosphere, which has prevailed for several days. The pease, if the weather after this be favourable, will yet recover, and yield an abun dant produce. eats, on good dry ground, are in many places unaommonly luxuriant, and on the whole, we think, will be equal to an average crop. Shearers wages are not yet generally fixed. Sunday night thirteen French prsoners confined. on board one of the prison ships at Plymouth Made their escape, and have not since b.:en heard ot. It is conjedured that they have taken a boat, and pushed off for the French coast: The mortality among the French prisoners recently arrived at Plymouth (particularly those from • the West Indies) is Very great. Both in 'the hospital and on board the prison ships numbers are - dying daily. They are mostly young men. Many hun dreds of them do' not exceed I 8 years ot Among them there are 200 of th,rimperial Guard. . ti it tv t*~ GRAVESILVD, SEPTEMBER 6. Sailed—the Saturion, Wilkinson, for Hayti ; John, Shand, for Libbun; and the Castor, Hooke, tor Gottenbur6tt. PRICE O! .- TOCK.S YESTSkDAY. India StOa, 1 mils Bonds, 225.-pr. . Exch. Bilis, Ss. iSs. pr. Onmium, Imperi): 3 per Cent. Diito Ann. Cons. fur Account, 681 Bank Stock, Navy; pet Cent. 99 k Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent. shut per Cent. veil. 3 per cent. Cons. 68U "Link L. Antl.,shut : Pebished by WILLIAM A RMIG LR SCRIPPS; Smith N or the rapier Letters tor the Editor, &c. (post-pia), LANCi:Sr."R AS SIZES. MANSLAUGHTER„ John Bradley, alias John &acids, was charged with killing and slaying William Drough, .at Liver pool. George Day deposed, that the deceased and self were breeches-makers, and worked in Liver pool .together. On Saturday night, the 1 ith of June, after they bad done work, and had their sup pers, it being a very tine night, they agreed to walk till four o'clock, when it would be high water, and they would bathe ; as they • were passino, through Gladstone-street, they heard a noise at a house of ill fame; they stopped to see what was the c'ause * , when the Prisoner came up to them, appa,- rently a little intoxicated, and said to them, " d—n your eyes, give me something to drink," which 0 1 4 refused to do ; the Prisoner pushed violently against the door of the hwase, of ill fame, and called out " Charlotte ;" a girl opened th; - .. door; thePrisonet went in, and they followed ,out Of curiosity ; the Prisoner asked them again to . give him something to drink, which they refused ; _the Prisoner then jumped up, and said he would give them both " a d---J good hiding," and he immediately struck the deceased a violent blow on Otis breast; got hold of him, and dragged hint into a back kitchen ; the wit ness followed, to as . kizit the deceased, and saw the Pris Oner strike the deceased on his chin, which . blow knocked the deceased dowq, and he tell with his head tgainst the post of the staircase, and the Pri soner upon him: ttie. deceased witness, tently in. great agony, to, the witness, “-Gcoro„ George, I am killed tiring we a P.irson, I shall not live a moment I" At the time the deceased was Calling out, the Prisoner ltAd got ,his kgs, upon his shoulders ; the Prisoner afterwards raa away out of the.honse ; gie witness got(the deceased into apar t lour, and washed his wounds ; and, with the ii5SiSL`. aliCe of a man, carried him home. _ . Charlotte As i inall, the girl who lived in the house, .and whom the Prisoner had called to, said,. site should not have opened the door, but the Pri mmer threatened to break it open, said he was a friend, and told his name ; she had been intimate: with the Prisoner ,some years since, but he had been to sea, and he was so much altered, she did not recolle,t:t hint. She saw the Prisoner Strike the de ceased without any provocation, and she let four watchmen into the house, in'consequende of the alarm that was given. Owen Thomas, the surgeon, that was sent for to attend ihe deceased, said he found his breast-bone deprived of muscular motion, and all sensation - of feeling in that part gone ; a severe contusion in the back of his neck to the back bone ; also a par-. tial disilocation and compression of the spinal tuar row. He, attended the deceased till the Wednes day evening, and then he was taken to the teary. . - • Dr. Brandreith, the surgeon belonging to the in mary, said, he opened the . body after death, and dis- . covered several broken ribs ; and knowing that the deceased had been aftlieted with a palsy, he searched about the neck mid back, laid bare the bones, found the spinal process of the 4th and sth bones the neck completely fradured, the coats of the sPa'," marrow, and the spinal marrow itself - much and he was decidedly of opinion that the latter.in jury • was the cause of his death. . - John. Smith,• the man who carried the deceased to the infirmary, also attended him in his dying, mo . ments : said the deceased forgave the Prisoner, and said he did" not believe it was his intention to take his life, but that it . was the effect of The deceased reflected very much on his ()Inn bad conduct, for being out at so late an hour, and going into such a house ; and hoped that God would tot" give tutu. • . The Prisoner was foUnd Guilty. BURGLARY. John Bullough, Lambert Partington, and George Valentine, were indicted for -burglariously breaking*, and entering the - dwelling-house of John ;and Mar); Anscough, of Blackrod, and stealing a variety 01 goods, to the amount of upwards of tool. 'lt appeared, that the house was broken open l y the night of the 13th February last. Early on L b° following morning, Bart of the goods were found a -field adjoining the house, by a man called' Figi' v ing Billy. The Prisoners were suspected and ar prehended. Mr. Grirnshaw, the clerk to Mr. Lyon, the M P gistrate at Wigan, produced the written confessio o9 made by Bullough and Partington. Valentine Confessed the charge to a friend, and LO tk constable when he apprehended him. They were all found GuilLy, Mr. SCARLET said he had several other indict' men is against the Prisoners, all of a similar natur e ' which he presumed were now unnecessary : 131 ' L hoped as the parties were bound over, his Lordshill would allow the expenses upon them; which do the Learned Judge assented to. BIRTHS. On Tuesday last, in Bentinck-street, Manchester-WO/1 the Lady ot J. E. Norris, Esq. of a Daughter. On the 4th inst. at Melton Mowbray, Lady Elizabeth Not' man, of a Daughter. MARRIED. A o lv Yesterday, at Cobham, Jasper Vaux, Esq. of Queen P•of str ee t West, to Miss. Combe, eldest daughter of 1-10;114 Christian Combe, Esq. of Cobham Park, Alderman' Member of Parliament for the City' of London. T same day, at St. lamcs't; Church, 'dines Briggs, 'oloi Surgeon, to Miss Vincent, only daughter of the late arh VincLin, 'Esq. .and niece to Dr. Vincent, Dean of ve minster. Veaterday, at the Friends' Meeting-HOuse, Maidefiri` td Berks, • Samuel. Fothergill, of Leicester-square, •:". 1). Anna Maria Russell, of Taplow Hill. , ofi p Lately, at Portsmouth Church, Mr. Rogers, of t IS ' hs"‘ 011- nance 0 Puitlett, to. Miss M itchell, niece of C,iibert, Esq late Naval Storekei:per FOrtsinouth• A ter/ da)s since, at BrightOn, - Mr. !Olin Tilt, i s Y uri'' son• of the late •Mr. Thomas Tilt, of the..Castfe brieliton, to Miss Elizabeth Gates, eldest daughter 0 I li , ' ltall Gates, Esq. Collector of tAis Nlajesty'lCiistorns;?.topt .place, ;aid sole Collector of :the ;:arochial• AsseoiLli tltc. DIED /o ° ' ' • -, At Stewart Hil4 in the County of ,Tyrone, #ndreW - t n:;+,, Earl of Castle ri eart. •o "' .e, vo 1 , L.trely, at Liverpool, of .a fever, Nl;ss !.ews , . - co v , Y 0.;05.11ter of Mr. Lewis, one of the. Proprietors 'Ol }..a,ueo Theatre. _ folton-street,G oyvenc MUM bi addressed. if